There is quite a big stink being made over a story that first appeared in the London Mail on Sunday newspaper and is now available online.  The charge…

A funny thing happened to the folks at Cadbury Schweppes on their way to implementing a global IT strategy with the clever acronym, PROBE (Program for…

Everyone knows the analogy Ohno used to describe inventory - that it is represented by the water level in a river full of rocks.  Lean manufacturers s…

Last week, the topic of whether Japanese culture is the cause of the lack of lean success in the U.S. came up over at NWLean, and a lot of folks weigh…

Another performance measurement of the auto industry came out, with the usual results:  Toyota way out ahead of the pack, followed in order by Honda,…

A few days ago, I announced that Economy of Scale was dead.  Those who took the time to read the comments may have noted that Eric Husman disagreed.…

I just returned from a couple weeks of R&R in Italy, and it looks like I have quite a bit of reading to do to catch up on.  Last year while visiti…

When Coke and Walmart tussle over distribution issues, it should be a clinic of leading edge thinking.  The rest of the world should be able to sit ba…